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Hey Bill... November 20th is my birthday, and I always have a happy-birthday-full-of good-things-that special feeling of it being MY day Sooooo, I inviting you to share my birthday this year - errrrrr... you can be my unidentical twin brother (smile)... and you get all the good feelings and positive things that come with having a November 20 birthday - including a very successful DBS! YOU GO, GUY! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Bill Mason <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:32 AM Subject: DBS-STN surgery >Hi all, well my numbers up and i'm going to have DBS-STN surgery Nov 20th. >I've read up on it and talk to a couple people and i'm ready to go. A little >nervous. My Neuro surgeon is dr schweitzer. If anybody would like to send >me their thoughts about their surgery i'd be grateful. thank you, > >Bill m >ps here's a poem i wrote. enjoy! > >Fifty Doors > > >You stand inside yourself and listen as your voice >agrees to brain surgery > >Relax, if it's anything like a colonoscopy >you'll be so out of it, who cares > >In a hall with fifty doors, options to burn >now most of those doors are bolted > >Someone drops off the waiting list >You are bumped up > >Gurney wheels squeak scrubbed hospital floor >They come sooner than you expect > >Maybe it's better to get it over with >You won't have to worry > >They'll use the latest equipment >Microsurgery, laser knives > >You don't remember your blood type >Better find out, get a couple pints > >Head shaved, sedated, fix crown to four points >Scan with 3D MRI, surgery six to eight hours > >Cut and peel back the scalp, saw a hole >Cut brain tissue bleeds liberally > >Tingling in you're fingers pinpoints ground zero >Plant lead, attach micro wire to micro stimulator > >You're programmed and sent home >Repeat procedure in eight weeks